Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-20

0iCSla Ia uuc do JuukC. AOuI WIttcL
served in the same brigade with Gres-
ham. knew him well, and is not surpris-
ed that he has shown himself man.
FARMER.
Scott county, ILL.,, Jan. 10, 1857.
Something for Wolkingmen to Con-
slider.
Tie Christian Union of December
30th prints an address to Puck. in
which we are called to account. in =
friendly way, for expressing our natur-
ri doubts of the existence Of the inde-
final "grievance from which Mr..
Chauncey Depew thinks the American
workingman Is suffering. Our esteem
Ell contemporary rec0unts the suffering
of tie poor, the sick and the hungry,
and says:
"If prosperous Puck, who looks wen
fe,. and jolly, as he deserves to be, and
who illustrates in his own person the
adage, laugh otd grow fat-if prosper
Gus Puck had been one of the nearly
million work-people who were thrown
out of employment in 1885 and locked
up in what Carlyle calls an English
mans hell'-edforced idleness; it, while
the guant faces of hungry wife and
Gil dppChicu W u6 DAu
knocked at hundred doors for q
chance to earn their daily bread and
found all closed against him, he would
have thought he had grievance. II
Puck were a horse-car driver, snd had
stood for sixteen hours day on the
platform IF a city car-as the drivers
uid until the strikes of 1886 reduced the
hours TO twelve-with an even chance
that at the end eff two years he would
have TO go to the hsspital with varicous
veins, he would have thought he had
grievance"
The Christian Union is probably the
best of all the religious weeklies. 1t is
honest. independent, free from can't and
hypocrisy, and it is edited and written
by men of intelligence and education
as paper, has better knowledge of the
character, of the needs, and OF the
troubles of the so-called labaring class
es. We do not wish to enter into the
personalities of journalism; but. after
all, the paper means only the men be-
hind it, aud we may fairly say that we
do not believe another paper in the
world has better right to assert that
all the men connected with it-plb-
llshers, writers, artists and employees
generally, are, in the fullest sense Of
the term, working-men. Not one OF
them has attained to whatever meas
ure of prosperity he now enjoys by
anything save plain, unassisted hard
work. And If You wish to consider the
paper as an entity and an individuals
ty. we can put it clearly in that way.
prosperous Puck" though he has
great brick building to-day, began his
work in a poor old rookery III North
William Street, and no weekly paper
ever had a harder struggle for success.
We emphatically deny the right Of
any particular sort or set of laboIers to-
give its members, exclusively, the title
of working-men. Save for q compara-
lively small class of people enriched by
Inheritance, we are all workingmen in
this country. 1t is safe to say thst un-
counted thousands of American citizens
begin life with no better start than was
given to the German laborer in the
brewery, or to the Irish driver on the
hOrse-car platform. All over the land
thousands of men and women, who
have begun the world without cent,
are winning their way with patient toll
and trouble, pretending to no grew
ances, forming no protective unions,
joining in no boycotts, riots or other
forms of violence, ,tand yet working
with reasonable hope of success
Among them are clerks, statesmen,
lawyers, doctors, artists, writers, teach
ers, farmers, farm lila borers, coachmen,
domestic servants of all sorts, clergy
men nurses and-there is no end to
the list. They out-number the people
W bo call themselves workingmen at
least five to one. They have no grew
an"e. They have no complaint to make
against law or against society. That
~ r,f
one class.
And what is the complaint? The
ChristiDn Union prints long state
ment of suff.rings endured by working
people, and asks us to look upon them
with pity. We do. We depiore them
as sincerely as does the Christian Uu-
ION, and we know them better, perhaps.
than the Christian Union can. But
we can sympathiZe and yet keep our
common-sense. Sad as these things
are, they are the griefs of the poor, NOT
the grievances of the workingman.
Let US give things their right names,
aud use plain English. We must know
what We have to do before we begin
| work. Will our excellent friend take
the trouble to look into its list Of
"grievances,n - and see whether treaty
constitutes all Arrangement OF Society
or Law? How many of these miserles
have been brought upon the sufferers
heads by pure folly aud wrong doing?
| You speak Of the ''nearly million"men
who were thrown out of employment
last year. Do you remember how
many thousand OF these men threw up
their empioym ment at the bidding OF q
lot of ..organizing" demagogues, who
choose to make tie discharge Of .
worthless employee of Southern rail-
| road the reason for stopping the busi-
ness of the country. and sending hum
dreds of men to the jail aud workhouse?
| We say again. as we have often said
before, there are no laws, social or gov
ern4nentaI, that oppress the working
man-tLat is, the manual laborer, In
this country. His chance IL the same
as that of any other citizen, and he
should take il as others do.-PVck.
Bishop Tuttle
The naw Enisconal Bishop of Missouri.